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Be on your guard against spate of thefts

Be on your guard against spate of thefts

Police Officers from Allerdale Rural Neighbourhood Policing Team are continuing in their request for members of the public to be on their guard against the thefts of pedal cycles and quad bikes.

On the morning of Wednesday, 6th November 2013 Police received three reports of thefts, which concern the theft of a black GT Avalanche mountain bike from Park Road, Wigton that occurred anytime with on last two weeks prior to 5th November 2013. The police are also investigating the theft of a child’s motor cross motor cycle from Deer Park, Wigton that occurred within the last 10 days prior to 5th November 2013 and the theft of quad bike from Aspatria on the evening of Tuesday 5th November 2013.

Enquiries into these offences are being made. Inspector Dennis Kelly, from the Allerdale Rural Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “We take all offences very seriously and we are putting officers out into these areas to trace and locate the offenders. We are working to seek the recovery of these items.

“We ask that the public again to help us by properly securing all of their out buildings, garages and garden sheds. We are also asking for the public not leave any pedal cycle or other motor cycle outside in a place from where it could be stolen. People are out looking for such items to steal and will do if they are given the opportunity.

“With this in mind the public should report any suspicious incident, a report that is wrong is helpful and a report that is right is very helpful. We have low crime rates and the best way to keep it that way is for the police and public to work and support each other. We have officers patrolling our towns and rural areas 24 hours a day, every day. If the public know of anything or see anything suspicious then this information may prevent another offence being committed and another innocent person suffering.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact Cumbria Police on 101 and ask to speak to an officer from the Allerdale Rural Neighbourhood Policing Team.

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Hospital turn off life support machine because family couldn’t pay £7k bill

The family of British man have been left devastated and furious after an Egyptian hospital because staff switched off his life support without their permission.

Despite this the hospital claim Adrian King suffered cardiac arrest however his family have told the local courts it’s because they didn’t have the money to pay a £7k insurance bill.

Adrian aged 39 became ill while he was on holiday with his friend in Hurghada, on Egypt’s east coast.

All of a sudden he fell unconscious and was being treated in hospital, during his time in hospital it was discovered his insurance policy have been voided and they demanded an upfront payment while he laid on his death bed.

The inquest heard how the insurance was void as he had not declared a bacterial infection he had within his stomach two years before his holiday.

Adrian’s dad Charles Bumford told the hearing: “A man at the hospital stood in my son’s room and told me: ‘The insurance is null and void – you pay now or I switch off the machines.’

“I didn’t have the £7,000 ($9,800) he was asking for at that time. As he walked out of the room he started switching things off.”

Charles added that he tried contacting the hospital ’50 times’ but he never received an answer. The friend Adrian was with at the time, Nicola, was similarly confused by the situation occurring in the medical facility.

“They did the second dialysis and then said that the insurance was voided,” she told the inquest.

“They never said he had a cardiac arrest or anything, they said it was stopping, because the funding was stopped.”

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Police have taken a zero tolerance approach to a woman who left a note on an ambulance.

The note left paramedics disgusted police have now confirmed they have arrested a woman after the abusive note was left on an ambulance demanding it parked somewhere else while it was attending a 999 emergency call.

The note stated ‘I couldn’t give a s**t if the whole street collapsed”

We have arrested a 26 year old female for public order offences. Emergency Services must be able to carry out their roles without fear of abuse/intimidation of any kind. https://t.co/xHSbdtl54S